"The court, in a special judicial proceeding, has sentenced a former member of the Ukrainian Parliament from the banned Party of Regions. The ex-MP has been found guilty of financing actions aimed at altering the borders of Ukraine's territory and state border (part 3 of article 110-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine). He has been sentenced to eight years in prison," the statement reads.
Additionally, the court decided to confiscate the previously seized property of the convicted individual valued at a total of 460.6 million UAH: a land plot of 0.15 hectares in Kyiv Oblast, an apartment in Dnipro, and real estate in temporarily occupied Crimea (including hotels, sanatorium complexes, dormitories, production facilities, and utility buildings).
"The ex-MP owned real estate and several enterprises in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. After the annexation of the peninsula, he registered them under Russian legislation and hired Russian National Guard military personnel to ensure security measures. There are established facts of money transfers for the protection of his museum-estate and sanatorium in Yalta. These funds were transferred to the accounts of the federal state unitary enterprise 'Protection' of the Federal National Guard Service of the Russian Federation," the Prosecutor General's Office reported.
The prosecution noted that the convicted individual is currently in the aggressor country of Russia and continues his illegal activities.
"He will serve the imposed sentence from the moment of his arrest," the release states.
The Office of the Prosecutor General did not disclose the name of the convicted ex-MP, but the Security Service of Ukraine noted that this concerns Oleg Tsarev, who has already received one sentence from a court in Ukraine.
"Comprehensive measures are currently underway to hold the ex-MP accountable for crimes against Ukraine. [...] The investigation was conducted by SBU officers in Vinnytsia and Ivano-Frankivsk regions under the procedural guidance of the Vinnytsia Regional Prosecutor's Office," the SBU explained.